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Deaf Twins Going Blind Euthanized

Evenstar said:
Not everyone can do that. First of all, it's not as easy as you think it is. Secondly, it can be botched. I found a picture several years ago from Faces of Death where a guy shot himself in the face with a sawed off shot gun and survived. The bastards put tubes through the hole in his face down his throat and forced him to live. Third, not everyone can physically manage to kill themselves because of a disability.
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Which is why one should aim for the temple or put the gun in their mouth.

But that sounds horrifying.
 
ReformCollege said:
Which is why one should aim for the temple or put the gun in their mouth.
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Nope. Up underneath the chin, near the throat, with the muzzle angled slightly towards the rear of the body. Greatest potential to do maximum damage to the brain.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yes. What is your objection here? Do you wish to deny a dying/disabled citizen the right to end their lives/suffering? Do you think that they should have to do so only in the privacy of their homes and with no outside counciling or assistance? Suicide is preferable to many as an alternative to being "useless" and a burden to society. Any care afforded to these folks, for perhaps the next 20+ years, is not available to those that would benefit more from it. Suicide is not such a selfish act as many percieve it to be.
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It wasn't all that long ago that Kevorkian was demonized for helping others do the same thing. How thinking has changed! Now, Belgium is not the US, but I see little wrong with a physician agreeing to this. Giving a morphine drip is often requested by a patient who no longer wants to be in pain, and just wishes to go peacefully...why prolong their suffering?
 
Tigger said:
Nope. Up underneath the chin, near the throat, with the muzzle angled slightly towards the rear of the body. Greatest potential to do maximum damage to the brain.
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It seems you have thought about this a lot?
 
polgara said:
It wasn't all that long ago that Kevorkian was demonized for helping others do the same thing. How thinking has changed! Now, Belgium is not the US, but I see little wrong with a physician agreeing to this. Giving a morphine drip is often requested by a patient who no longer wants to be in pain, and just wishes to go peacefully...why prolong their suffering?
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It also seems more dignifying, to me at least.
 
ReformCollege said:
It also seems more dignifying, to me at least.
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My mom refused to undergo dialysis for the rest of her life, which was one of the options presented to her by the physician after her kidneys shut down.. She requested the morphine drip, and all us kids were with her as she went to sleep. It didn't take long, it was her decision, and she said she was ready to greet my dad who was waiting for her. None of us could argue with her, since she was lucid and very much in control of her wits. She said goodbye to us, accepted our apologies for being rotten kids sometimes, and forgave us. It was very dignified, although heartbreaking for us to lose her. Thanks for your kind thoughts. :)
 
Dragonfly said:
Deaf Twins Going Blind Euthanized - Yahoo! News

Thoughts?

Should this kind of thing be "allowed" by a modern, intelligent, and caring society?
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Yes, absolutely.

It is YOUR life. Not anyone else's. YOURS. You get to decide when and under what circumstances it will end, if it is at all possible to do so.

And I think it's sick and cruel that most of the world criminalizes people for wanting to control their own deaths. We force people to die is long, suffering agony rather than allowing them to choose euthanasia and die with some dignity. A lot of the time, they even ASK for death -- and many doctors oblige, in secret, at tremendous personal risk.

We give our animals more dignity than we give human beings. That's just sick.

But really, I don't think anyone needs to justify it if they wish to die. It's their life.

I think they should be subject to a brief psych crisis screening to rule out any treatable illness that can cause sudden psychosis, and then permitted to die either assisted or with effective and non-traumatic independent means.

People don't choose their birth. At the very least, they should get to choose their death.

We let people mark their bodies in various way, choose their lifestyle, choose abortion, choose all kinds of things, but not their death. And the reason we don't let them choose their death is because, ultimately, we think about the issue very selfishly. We think about in terms of how it might affect us, instead of in terms of how it might affect the person whose life it is.
 
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